Is Toryism Dead in Canada? Ron Dart
Ron Dart: Is Toryism Dead in Canada? The Red Tory Element in Canadian Conservatism
The Trees of Paradise – Abp Lazar Puhalo
THE TREES OF PARADISE, a prologue for the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross"Meaning" is so often the missing dimension in religious teaching and deliberations. When religious people debate about the creation narrative in Genesis, they leave a certain...
Female Prophets: Types of the Fallen and Fruitful Church – Lazar Puhalo
The Twelve Great Feast Days: A Verbal IconographyWhen we enter an Orthodox Church, we do not encounter images of the 12 stations of the Cross but the icons of the 12 great feast days. This is because we understand that the entire life of Christ, from his incarnation...
The Nonviolent God Is No Mere Projection — Richard Murray
Sometimes I hear the concern from critics that those who advocate for the non-violent nature of God are just projecting their own ideas and desires onto God. But, here is the thing. Left to my own nature and personality, I definitely AM an eye-for-an-eye guy. I grew...
Beyond Alienation: The Theology of the Octoechos – Lazar Puhalo
THE THEOLOGY OF THE OCTOECHOSVladika Lazar The hymnology of the "Octoechos” [the “Eight Tones”] continuously focuses us on the alienation of man that occurred in paradise. Satan tempted Adam and Eve, not merely to eat the fruit of the tree, but to...
A Response to Deconstruction – Lazar Puhalo
Many Christian theorists believe that humanity is a collection of Karl Capek's Robots, or mechanical robots, empty and waiting for the right programmer. The inner strength that man finds within himself is there because he is created in the image and likeness of...
“The One True Church” – Bradley Jersak
My ecclesial journey has included 20 years with the Baptists (via my parents), 10 years with the Mennonites (via marriage), another 10 years with renewal movement folks, including a church plant focused on the margins (mainly people with disabilities, addicts in...
Where Do We See Jesus? Jessica Boudreaux
“White people, you have to understand this: Jesus does not look like you!” This was the opening line and the perpetual refrain of one Sunday’s sermon at a church that boasted of their intense inclusivity and rich diversity. After recently moving from the conservative,...
The Engine Running on Victimization – Jonathan Foster
The Engine Running on Victimizationand some Girardian-inspired ways to change The conservative Christians feel justified in their anger because they have bought into the idea that their way of life is under siege. With backs up against the wall (supposedly), they feel...
Q&R “Why are you no longer an Evangelical? How about the Charismatic gifts?” Eric Janzen
Question: Which of your beliefs has changed that made the label “Evangelical” no longer correct for you? This is a difficult question to answer in brief. However, I shall make an attempt. I will preface this by saying that I consider myself, in part, an Anabaptist who...
Jan Zwicky’s “Once upon a Time in the West” – Review by Ron Dart
Jan Zwicky, Once upon a Time in the West: Essays on the Politics of Thought and Imagination (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023). I lived for a couple of years in the young 1970s in northern Norway and Switzerland. I spent time in Norway with the mountain Sami—this...